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Corporate Structure and Activities

The Office of the Comptroller General (OCG) provides oversight and direction to government-wide efforts to improve the stewardship
of tax payers' dollars and government assets. The OCG is composed of three operational sectors.

Acquired Services and Assets Sector

The Acquired Services and Assets Sector supports the Comptroller General
of Canada in strengthening the management
of real property and materiel, investment planning, project management and
procurement across the government. The ASAS promotes excellence in resource stewardship,
governance, and public sector accountability by providing policy advice and
support to the Treasury Board in the following areas:

Procurement;

Investment planning, project management;

Real property and materiel;

Development of the concerned communities of public servants.

Led by the Assistant
Comptroller General, the Acquired Services
and Assets Sector (ASAS)
provides leadership, expertise and innovation to the government's procurement,
investment planning, project management, real property and materiel policy
suites. ASAS also helps improve the quality of information available for
enterprise-wide decision making and analysis. This is accomplished through
ongoing efforts to enhance the integration and standardization of policies,
processes, training and data.

ASAS works closely with the procurement, materiel management, real property, investment planning and project management communities and stakeholders to develop and implement management strategies, enabling infrastructures, programs and tools that support the communities in fulfilling their roles in the delivery of programs and services.

Real Property and Materiel

Monitor and assess departmental performance and compliance with policies and standards;

Provide real property, materiel, fleet, common services and contaminated sites advice and support to Treasury Board and its Secretariat, to senior officials, parliamentarians and others;

Provide policy advice and support to horizontal programs and initiatives administered by other departments: Corporate Asset Management Program (Finance), Office Accommodation Program, the Office of the Greening of Government Operations and Crown Assets Disposal Directorate (PWGSC), Consultation and Accommodation Unit (AANDC); and

Manage the central registry of all federal real property and federal contaminated sites as well as co-manage the Federal Contaminated Sites Accelerated Action Plan with Environment Canada.

Community Development

Develop and implement an integrated
and sustainable human resource management framework, strategies, initiatives,
tools and methodologies to build the capacity, and enhance the professionalism
of the Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Communities;

Provide a comprehensive
engagement strategy targeting the Procurement,
Materiel Management and Real Property Communities and their stakeholders; including government-wide
initiatives for branding and recruitment, classification, and professional development
and certification (procurement and materiel); and

Financial Management Sector (FMS)

The Financial Management Sector (FMS) supports the Comptroller General of Canada in bringing rigorous standards to financial
management, oversight, and reporting across the government. The FMS plays a lead role in enhancing, integrating, and standardizing business
systems, policies, processes, and data to make quality information available for decision making and analysis. Key roles include the following:

financial management;

financial oversight; and

financial reporting.

Led by the Assistant Comptroller General, the Financial Management (FMS) works to bring excellence and innovation to
the government’s financial management policy suite. FMS also helps improve the quality of information available for enterprise-wide
decision making and analysis. This is accomplished through ongoing efforts to enhance integration and standardization of business systems,
policies, processes, and data.

Community development and capacity building

Provides comprehensive HR strategies and targeted professional development, recruitment and support for the financial management community

Provides leadership and advice on human resources matters related to the transition to the chief financial officer (CFO) model, including advice on recruitment, staffing, succession planning, and professional accreditation of CFOs

Provides competency development and career management strategies to the financial management community.

Conducts community outreach and engagement, including community events such as executive financial management conferences and financial officer information sessions and strategic workshops.

Transfer payments management

Develops policies and guides

Monitors and assesses departmental performance and compliance with policies

Provides sustained leadership and support in promoting and facilitating collaboration among departments for the harmonization of transfer payment programs, the standardization of administrative processes and the sharing of best practices

Conducts outreach and engagement with federal practitioner community involved in the design, delivery and management of transfer payment programs

Financial Management Transformation Project Office

The Financial Management Transformation (FMT) project office supports the Comptroller General of Canada in transforming the financial management function across government in order to standardize financial management data, modernize the delivery model for financial management services and build enterprise systems for financial management.

The FMT project office plays a lead role in advancing the transformation initiative by aggressively moving forward on financial management data standardization and the government’s enterprise reporting capacity; by managing investments in financial management to implement a common government SAP enterprise solution; by developing a financial management services strategy. The Office’s key areas of business include:

Financial data and analytics;

Investment alignment; and

Financial systems and services.

Led by the Assistant Comptroller General, the FMT project office has the following program objectives:

Delivering more timely, consistent and responsive financial information to support decision making across government;

Improving financial management services to make more efficient use of resources; and

Corporate Financial Systems

Provides a turnkey financial and materiel management ERP operational system and corporate reporting system by providing help desk services, training, end-user communications, and software maintenance and development

Plans and facilitates the evolution and deployment of effective business systems in conjunction with Central Agency Cluster – Shared Systems (CAC-SS) division , the OCG and PWGSC’s SAP Program Office

Ensures investment alignment across the CAC-SS cluster via annual development and maintenance plans and governance in line with annual Memoranda of Understanding and Service Level Agreements with all client organizations

Internal Audit Sector (IAS)

The Internal Audit Sector (IAS) supports the Comptroller General of Canada in strengthening the internal audit function
across government. A strong audit function provides a basis on which decision makers can exercise sound oversight and control
of their organization, manage risk intelligently, target their attention to areas in need of improvement, and report in a fair and
complete manner to ministers, legislators, and the public. In this context, the key roles of the sector include the following:

functional leadership of internal audit;

horizontal Audits of Large and Small Departments;

core control audits in Small Departments;

internal audit services to Regional Development Agencies; and,

assessment of and assurance pertaining to the practice of internal
audit.

Led by the Assistant Comptroller General, the sector brings leadership and innovation to government efforts to maintain the highest
standards of public sector governance, risk management, resource stewardship, and accountability within government departments and agencies.

Policy on Internal Audit (2012)

Much of the Sector's work centres on sustaining the Treasury Board's new Policy on Internal Audit. The Policy enhances the oversight, monitoring, and reporting role of internal audit; bolsters its independence; and strengthens the professionalism with which it is practiced. It also clarifies the relationships between deputy heads, who are responsible for ensuring an internal audit capacity appropriate to the needs of their departments, and the Comptroller General, who is responsible for providing focussed, sustained leadership of the internal audit function across government.